How Christian Nationalism drove the Insurrection

[jmbar2]

Great article from Salon:

In Manseau's view, religion wasn't an incidental element, but had been the driving motivation that had brought many people to the Capitol. Much of that had begun much earlier, with Christian right leaders — both official and self-declared — framing the 2020 election, and the rest of America's polarized conflicts, as an all-or-nothing showdown between good and evil.

A lot of crazypants people latched themselves onto Trump when he decided to run--conspiracy theorists, grifters, foreign influences and religious nuts filling his head with nutty stuff 24/7.

It's like your conspiracy-obsessed uncle at Thanksgiving gets suddenly elevated to head-of-state, with millions of rabid followers. This must never happen again.


https://www.salon.com/2022/01/06/how-christian-nationalism-drove-the-insurrection-a-religious-history-of-jan-6/

[multigraincracker]

1. Almost like a movement of every Archie Bunker

type of American banding together to make very little sense of reality.

[elleng]

2. 'Obviously,' they're so GOOD!

[Duppers]

3. another article...

https://uncivilreligion.org/home/uncivil-religion-january-6-2021?path=index


And K & R.

[jmbar2]

9. This looks good - thanks!

[Lonestarblue]

4. Christian Nationalists are Trump's biggest cult.

He could not have been elected without them. And now we have at least three of them on the Supreme Court. These are people actively working to turn the US into a theocracy, not of true Christian beliefs but one where the belief is that white people with great wealth are the true leaders of this country. They have given up on recruiting the country to their religion and they have turned to political power to achieve their goals. I’ve read that Christian Nationalists are against public education, which is one reason Betsy DeVos tried to destroy public schools, to be replaced by private Christian schools where all students can be indoctrinated into their brand of crazy—like the Taliban. Josh Hawley is another Christian Nationalist. Other names of groups are Dominionists and Opus Dei and I suspect many others, some of whom no doubt helped plan and fund January 6.

[Best_man23]

5. Which Three Supremes

I can't say whether Justice Beer Pong or Justice Stolen Seat are Christian Nationalists, but I'm pretty certain about Justice OfDonald.

[jmbar2]

7. Alito, Thomas, and Coney-Barrett

[jmbar2]

8. I used to live and work in Texas

I started getting the creeps about the Dominionist movement when they started infiltrating the college where I worked, disappearing people, and replacing them with other Dominionists. This was the Rick Perry era, when they thought he was the annointed one. Then Ted Crudz, and now Trump. Been following closely ever since.

My only hope is that by tying themselves so closely to Trump, and then merging with the nutters, Qanons, antivaxxers, white nationalists and Proud Boys that they have jumped the shark.

I think it's time for a Progressive Christian movement to expose them. John Pavlovitz is doing a good job. It may take awhile, but fingers crossed.

[Lonestarblue]

10. Progressive Christians are sane, Dominionists are not.

I have blamed Fox and Facebook for much of the craziness among Trump supporters, but the preachers these people listen to every Sunday are equally to blame for a lot of the nonsense that passes for evangelical Christianity today. And in many rural areas, Christian radio fills in for the Sunday preachers with their venom about liberals, women, LGBTQ, and immigrants and how the country is going to hell because of liberal ideas.

Republicans essentially own the media, including much of the mainstream media that rarely criticizes them. Republican voters thus only get educated about reality when they bother to do their own research, and most of them wouldn’t recognize a reliable resource if it smacked them in the face!

By the way, you were right about the Christian Nationalists I see on the SC. I think Thomas’s wife Ginny is one also. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are harder to determine, though both seem willing to give special privileges to Christian religious groups.

[Martin Eden]

6. It WAS a showdown between good and evil

Fortunately evil was defeated.

For that day, at least.